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Adalbert (Mystic)Adalbert was a French "mystic" and probable fraudster who lived in the 8th century. Adalbert boasted that an angel had conferred miraculous powers on him at his birth and that another had brought him relics of great sanctity from all parts of the earth. He also claimed to be able to see the future and read people's thoughts, telling those who came to him that they had no need to confess, since he knew what they had done, and that their sins were forgiven. His "miracles" gained him the awe of the people and he began to give away parings from his nails and locks of his hair as powerful amulets. He is even said to have set up an altar in his own name and shown his disciples a letter supposedly brought to him from Jesus Christ by the Archangel Michael. He was eventually imprisoned for blasphemy, and died in jail. He wrote an account of his own life, but only a fragment survives.
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